MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN A
PLURALISTIC SOCIETY COMPREHENSIVE
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● What are the characteristics of culture?
Answer: -culture is learned, adapted, and dynamic
-our values are initially determined by our culture
-our nonverbal communication patterns reflect our culture
●● What is individualism?
Answer: the belief that every individual is his or her own master, is in
control of his or her own destiny, and will advance or regress in society
based only on his or her own efforts
●● What is cultural pluralism?
Answer: a society that allows multiple distinctive groups to function
separately and equally without requiring assimilation into the dominant
culture
●● What is assimilation?
,Answer: when a group's distinctive cultural patterns either become part
of the dominant culture or disappear as the group adopts the dominant
culture
●● What is cultural relativism?
Answer: to see a culture as if we are a member of the culture
●● What is case law?
Answer: the published opinions of judges, which interpret statutes,
regulations, and constitutional provisions
●● What is enculturation?
Answer: the process of acquiring the characteristics of a given culture
and becoming competent in its language and ways of behaving and
knowing
●● What is socialization?
Answer: the general process of learning the social norms of a culture
●● What is ethnocentrism?
Answer: the inability to view other cultures as equally viable alternatives
for organizing reality
●● What is multicultural education?
, Answer: student's interests are integrated into the curriculum,
instruction, and the environment of the classroom and school
●● Section 504 of Public Law 93-112 prohibits exclusion from
programs solely on the basis of an individual's what?
Answer: Disability
●● What does the term "hidden curriculum" refer to?
Answer: the curriculum, in addition to a formal curriculum, that consists
of the unstated norms, values, and beliefs about the social relations of
school and classroom life that are transmitted to students.
●● True or False: Disproportionalities can be defined as "the
representation of a group in a category that exceeds our expectations for
that group, or differs substantially from the representation of others in
that category"
Answer: True
●● "IDEA" stands for:
Answer: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
●● True or False: Ableism leads to allowing students to be able to be
themselves in the classroom.
PLURALISTIC SOCIETY COMPREHENSIVE
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● What are the characteristics of culture?
Answer: -culture is learned, adapted, and dynamic
-our values are initially determined by our culture
-our nonverbal communication patterns reflect our culture
●● What is individualism?
Answer: the belief that every individual is his or her own master, is in
control of his or her own destiny, and will advance or regress in society
based only on his or her own efforts
●● What is cultural pluralism?
Answer: a society that allows multiple distinctive groups to function
separately and equally without requiring assimilation into the dominant
culture
●● What is assimilation?
,Answer: when a group's distinctive cultural patterns either become part
of the dominant culture or disappear as the group adopts the dominant
culture
●● What is cultural relativism?
Answer: to see a culture as if we are a member of the culture
●● What is case law?
Answer: the published opinions of judges, which interpret statutes,
regulations, and constitutional provisions
●● What is enculturation?
Answer: the process of acquiring the characteristics of a given culture
and becoming competent in its language and ways of behaving and
knowing
●● What is socialization?
Answer: the general process of learning the social norms of a culture
●● What is ethnocentrism?
Answer: the inability to view other cultures as equally viable alternatives
for organizing reality
●● What is multicultural education?
, Answer: student's interests are integrated into the curriculum,
instruction, and the environment of the classroom and school
●● Section 504 of Public Law 93-112 prohibits exclusion from
programs solely on the basis of an individual's what?
Answer: Disability
●● What does the term "hidden curriculum" refer to?
Answer: the curriculum, in addition to a formal curriculum, that consists
of the unstated norms, values, and beliefs about the social relations of
school and classroom life that are transmitted to students.
●● True or False: Disproportionalities can be defined as "the
representation of a group in a category that exceeds our expectations for
that group, or differs substantially from the representation of others in
that category"
Answer: True
●● "IDEA" stands for:
Answer: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
●● True or False: Ableism leads to allowing students to be able to be
themselves in the classroom.
